Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
...slap in the face to the C. I. O.-hating Premier came unexpectedly from Windsor and Toronto where David A. Croll and Arthur W. Roebuck, former Hepburn cabinet members who split with "Mitch" on the C. I. O. stand, were returned with large majorities...
...heads of governments who might actually do something. But Boston's conference on distribution had for its rank-&-file attendants some 750 business men actively engaged in distribution, had such headline speakers as President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co., General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., President Oswald Knauth of Associated Dry Goods Corp., Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden, Professor Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia University, President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and not least of all, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To garnish this group as chairman of the first...
...surplus profits tax. Contented stockholders would buy more stock, return to their company as much cash or more than they received in dividends. One of the first big companies to go the whole hog on this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish working capital funds depleted by year-end dividends has been a big factor in starting...
...White and the Post published a story saying, "although Mr. White will not take responsibility of selecting Sheik Imam's wife, he will be glad to make contact with the Arabian for those interested. Mr. White can be reached by telephone at 9-1817 or by mail at Roebuck Springs...